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Grant proposals drafted with AI help more likely to win NIH funding But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited with the help of a chatbot.

Grant proposals drafted with AI help more likely to win NIH funding

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Parkinson's May Emerge From a Deeper Brain Network Than We Thought A recently discovered brain network may be the core circuit underlying symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Parkinson's May Emerge From a Deeper Brain Network Than We Thought

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Tesla's Dirty Little Secret Investors just let the cat out of the bag.

Tesla's Dirty Little Secret

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Anthropic AI safety lead Mrinank Sharma resigns, says world is falling apart and is in peril Mrinank Sharma, an AI safety researcher at Anthropic, has resigned from his position. In a cryptic post on social media, Mrinank hints there is more to the AI work within Anthropic than what meets the...

Anthropic AI safety lead Mrinank Sharma resigns, says world is falling apart and is in peril

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Why Doctors Can’t Agree on How to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Divergent diagnostic criteria is raising concerns that some patients are being misdiagnosed and unnecessarily treated.

Why doctors can’t agree on how to diagnose Alzheimer’s

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Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To Be in Charge | Quanta Magazine New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial la...

Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To Be in Charge

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Tesla’s Optimus Is A Total Fiasco The C-3PO wannabe is going nowhere.

Tesla’s Optimus Is A Total Fiasco

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This Robot Just Did Something No Other Humanoid Has Ever Done — And It Worked in a BMW Factory for… Helix 02 solved the problem that’s stumped robotics for decades, and the real-world results prove it’s not just a lab demo

This Robot Just Did Something No Other Humanoid Has Ever Done — And It Worked in a BMW Factory for 11 Months

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The Triarchy of Creation: Salvatore Pais’s Cosmic Unification Dr. Salvatore Pais doesn’t pitch a theory so much as a provocation: what if creation isn’t a one-time explosion, but a repeating physics…

The Triarchy of Creation: Salvatore Pais’s Cosmic Unification

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Why large language models are stuck in Plato’s cave (and what comes next) Large language models feel intelligent because they speak fluently, confidently, and at scale. But fluency is not understanding, and…

Why large language models are stuck in Plato’s cave

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NAD+ precursor supplementation in human ageing: clinical evidence and challenges - Nature Metabolism This Review summarizes existing data, as well as crucial knowledge gaps, emerging from clinical trials involving NAD+ precursor supplementation in humans.

NAD+ precursor supplementation in human ageing

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F2,6BP restores mitochondrial genome integrity in Huntington’s disease Several reports have indicated that impaired mitochondrial function contributes to the development and progression of Huntington’s disease (HD). Mitoc…

F2,6BP restores mitochondrial genome integrity in Huntington’s disease

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The default mode network: where spontaneous thought
meets memory consolidation

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Missing Link Between Parkinson's Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition...

Missing Link Between Parkinson's Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered

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Adam Zarnowski (@adamzarnowski) Important information about changing ICE/CBP tactics. They’re adapting civilian wear to blend in with the population. Spread this like wildfire. The information must get out. The ramifications are e...

Important information about changing ICE/CBP tactics. They’re adapting civilian wear to blend in with the population.

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Vagus nerve-mediated neuroimmune modulation for rheumatoid arthritis: a pivotal randomized controlled trial - Nature Medicine An implantable vagus nerve-targeted device safely reduces disease activity and joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis, offering a new nondrug treatment for patients who do not respond to or cannot toler...

Vagus nerve-mediated neuroimmune modulation for rheumatoid arthritis

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System Kevin Tracey, the pioneering neurosurgeon who discovered the connection, talks about the recent FDA approval for rheumatoid arthritis and where this is headed

Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

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The "AI Layoff" Myth AI is not taking your job.

The "AI Layoff" Myth

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AI Agents: The Dawn of a New Species? Exploring Moltbook Through the Lens of Universal Consciousness

AI Agents: The Dawn of a New Species?

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Stop Using Perplexity Like ChatGPT: The Hunter vs Architect Rule Most people treat AI tools like interchangeable assistants. Here’s the mental model that fixes that — and actually saves you time.

Stop Using Perplexity Like ChatGPT

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Missing Link Between Parkinson's Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition...

Missing Link Between Parkinson's Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered

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Taming Tumor Chaos: Researchers Uncover Key to Improving Glioblastoma Treatment - Neuroscience News A groundbreaking study identifies a "master switch" molecule, miR-181d, that controls the chaotic behavior of glioblastoma cells.

Researchers Uncover Key to Improving Glioblastoma Treatment

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Mouse Study Flags a Serious Downside to Popular Weight-Loss Diet The high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet has been growing in popularity in recent years, following claims of rapid weight loss.

Mouse Study Flags a Serious Downside to Keto Diet

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The “Discombobulator”: Unpacking the Physics (and the Risks) of the Weapon That Captured Maduro By Jesse A. Canchola

The “Discombobulator”: Unpacking the Physics (and the Risks) of the Weapon That Captured Maduro

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A 1967 Math Paper Just Solved AI’s $100 Million Problem December 31st, 2025. While Silicon Valley popped champagne, 20 researchers in Hangzhou published 20 pages that would make AI history.

A 1967 Math Paper Just Solved AI’s $100 Million Problem

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How Psilocybin Rewires the Human Brain: A Breakthrough That Changes Everything We Know About… Executive Summary

How Psilocybin Rewires the Human Brain

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Unplugged: how Trump’s dumb beef with renewables could lose America the AI race AI, the technological promise dominating the economic, business and geopolitical agenda, is driving global energy demand at unanticipated…

Unplugged: how Trump’s dumb beef with renewables could lose America the AI race

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Did a Gut Bacteria Transplant Turn Mice Brains… into Monkey Brains? A fascinating microbiome project offers new insights — but needs a healthy dose of skepticism

Did a Gut Bacteria Transplant Turn Mice Brains… into Monkey Brains?

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